perfsonar development work

[Maciej Glowiak <>]

Jeff W. Boote wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Jason Zurawski wrote:
>
> > Cándido;
> >
> >
> > > > I think the request should be XML and not 'string' data. This would 
> > > > allow services/clients to use the full set of XML api's to look at 
> > > > requests/responses. (Otherwise, why are we messing with this bloated 
> > > > XML stuff anyway?)
> > >
> > > Yes, I agree with you but I don't know how to do it. I can have the 
> > > Document or the String of the <Request> element but how I integrate 
> > > it in a nmwg message? I guess I should use the 
> > > org.ggf.ns.nmwg.base.v2_0.Element class but it wasn't work.
> > > So, any help for adding the <Request> element inside an <aa:subject> 
> > > element? :-)
> >
> > To do this you would need to add the necessary objects and handlers to 
> > the nmwg object structure.
>
>
> Or stop using the object marshaling model and just use dom directly or 
> perhaps a push-pull model... Not sure where that is on the Java 
> developers plans, but the marshaling model has obviously shown itself to 
> be a pain in more ways than one and I don't think we should be crafting 
> message formats due to this implementation limitation. (Especially given 
> the fact that the main Java developers have already expressed the wish 
> to remove it.)
>
> Probably the short-term solution in the Java implementation is as Jason 
> says: Add the needed objects into the nmwg library.

Hi,

In psBase2 the NMWG implementation will be DOM-like, so all 'unknown' 
elements will be stored (or not) into generic Element.
There will be more options to store such requests (just a string), etc. 
so I think the best 'short term' solution is leave it as is and wait for 
psBase2.

Maciej

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